Morgan Wallen returned the bird while performing during a recent show at the Rogers Center in Toronto. It was a decision that many online interpreted as the singer weighing on the current quarrel between Gavin Adcock and Charley Crockett on what deserves “authenticity” in the country.
During Wallen’s performance Thursday for its I am the problem Tour, the artist brought Adcock out, who carried out a t-shirt that seemed to be marked with an image of Crockett and the text “$ 10 Cowboy Tour”, which seems to correspond to a shirt sold by Crockett Online. In the clip, Wallen holds two fingers in the middle in front of the shirt and always walks smiling before continuing with the rest of the show.
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Representatives of Wallen, Crockett and Adcock did not return immediately RollerComment requests.
Last month, Crockett, a country singer from San Benito, Texas, addressed Country fans in a publication on social networks with the debate vision of country music on what deserves “authenticity”. “Hey people in the country. Beyoncé is not the source of your dissatisfaction. It was 25 years in Bro Country,” he wrote at the time. Crockett also seemed to refer to Wallen, writing: “# 1 country artist on earth listening [sic] Nothing other than rap ”, and Adcock, who in June said on stage that Beyoncé Cowboy Carter “Is not country music, and it’s never country music, and it’s not country music.” Adcock later doubled on his comments when he appeared on Roller‘s Nashville now podcast.
In an Instagram publication, almost certainly approaching Adcock’s comments, Crockett wrote: “Black music made me. I will not apologize.
During his turn Roller‘s Nashville nowCrockett challenged the idea that the “outlaw country” is a sub-genre in today’s country. “I don’t think they represent anything. They represent the Auto-Tune and the songs written by a committee,” he said about the Pop country industry. “Outlaw consisted in defending your rights against a very rigid music trade system. In a game where you throw money on a young artist, and if that does not work, no problem, because there are 1,000 people behind you, well, a controversial figure is unlikely to rise.”
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